A text editor is a program that allows for editing of plain text files. Unlike a full fledged word processor, text editors generally do not add formatting, though many of them have features such as macro, and syntax highlighting
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Sublime Text package similar to NppExec?
Anybody know of a package for Sublime Text 2 that will let me execute a shell command, save shell commands, run the currently-open file?
I miss the utility of NppExec from Notepad++, in which I would ...
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how to do a vim search inverse search for all lines with out text
with grep I can do a grep -v "my search" to get all the lines with out "my search"
with sed I can
sed '/baz/!s/foo/bar/g' to find replace text on lines with out baz
Is there a way to do the same ...
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How to fix vim textwidth during editing?
When editing files that I limit in my .vimrc to tw=80, when I come back to edit them later, the line-lengths end up all over the place. e.g.
lets say for the sake of argument that this line hits 80 ...
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What are the unique features of notepad++? have any? [closed]
Lots of sites mentions Notepad++ as THE BEST general purpose text editor and the reasons that normally are exposed are funny because almost every decent editor has these features:
Syntax ...
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Windows Notepad and Notepad++ show newlines in same file differently
I created a Perl script which gets some data and inserts it line by line to a text file. When I open that file with Notepad++, it appears to have an empty line separation between each two lines of ...
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What text editor has these capabilities? [closed]
I'm looking for a text editor that has the following capabilities:
Create multiple windows, to edit more than one file.
Split vertical and horizontal any window, to edit different places of the ...
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text editor with visual history heatmap
This is more of a wish, but does anyone know of a text editor / editor plugin that visually shows you where you've been editing last?
The problem I'm trying to solve is when coding in large projects, ...
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Sublime Text 2 doesn't render text properly if I start the application with my Acer display attached
I'm using a Macbook Air. If I start Sublime Text with no external displays and then attach the display everything looks fine.
But, if I attach the display first and then start Sublime Text the text ...
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Compact CSS code in Espresso
I like my CSS code each class / id in one single line, I hate how Espresso automatically adds 2 new lines after each curly bracket { I open while writing CSS. IS it possible to turn this off?
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Modifiying a file in editor automatically
I'm trying to change a ppt to beamer. Here's the strategy I'm following:
Copy all bullets from the ppt (open office)
Paste it in an editor (gedit?)
Hit save. (Here, it should call the sed script ...
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HTML editor with IDE features
There is a ton of questions about free HTML editors for Windows. I have a couple of specific requirements, which seem ubiquitous to me, yet, I can't seem to find any that don't suck.
So here is what ...
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Opening a file from Terminal to a new window of TextWrangler
I'm able to open a file form Terminal with
open -b com.barebones.textwrangler whicheverfile
The problem is if any window of Textwrangler window is already is open, this file is open in that window. ...
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Opening a big file [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I have a rather large log file on a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer. It's a couple gigabytes, but notepad, wordpad, ...
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Lightweight source code beautifier [closed]
I am looking for a lightweight PHP prettyprint (beautification) tool. In Netbeans, I can Right-click and select Format to format source code. Is there a text editor with the same capability?
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Replacement for edit.exe in 64-bit Windows cmd/powershell
Is there a replacement for the in window editor of 16/32 bit versions of windows? Would be nice to have, though of course there are many workarounds to this problem.
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Where does ms-dos editor store settings?
Where does ms-dos editor (edit) store settings in win xp?
Also, would these settings be easily transferrable to another OS, like win 7 or ms-dos?
I think it's edit.ini.
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How do you use sftp with gedit on Ubuntu?
Do you need a plugin to edit sftp files on a remote server with gedit? Which one works best?
What about (non-secure) ftp?
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Can I prevent textmate from auto adding semicolons after colons?
Is there a way to prevent textmate from auto-typing a ; after every : when editing CSS?
I still want it to auto add closing brackets and curly braces. Just not semi-colons.
I've seen the option in ...
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Free form selection in text editor
I regularly need to edit and transform lot of texts. So my dream is to select parts of text in other way (not only inline)
This is a example:
I would like to be able to select for example the red ...
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How can I config sublime text excute javascript with Mozilla Rhino
I want to excute javascript file without a browser. I found Mozila Rhino, but I wonder that how can I config sublime text or another text editor run my .js file directly (i.e without run command ...
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Text viewer/editor to show text in columns to maximise visible content on a single screen?
Hopefully this image illustrates what I'm after to help view a long log file:
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Preferably a text editor, but any suggestions welcome.
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How can I print source code on OS X with line numbers?
I'm looking through some of Wordpress' core code and would like to print it out to review.
I'm looking for a tool that
defaults to a monospace font
can wrap long lines
possibly print line numbers ...
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how to block select, move, copy, paste in vi?
I am trying to migrate from Notepad++ to vi. In N++, I constantly rely on block edit (or "column mode"), as it is a great increase in productivity: I can select a rectangular area of text by pressing ...
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Looking for a text editor with navigation/categorization
I've been looking for a text editor that automatically (or at least makes it easy to-) make some sort of navigation. Adobe Reader has this functionality with its bookmark system:
Right now, though, ...
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Can I chown /etc/hosts so my user owns it so I can edit it without sudo?
It's a bit inconvenient to have to sudo emacs /etc/hosts whenever I want to make a change to my hosts file, especially since I don't use a Terminal-based editor primarily. Could I change the ownership ...
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How to move text cursor to previous position after pressing “Home” key, etc.?
If I'm typing something (this question for example), and I press Home, and the blinking line, letting me know where I'm typing, goes to the front of the line. To go back to the end, I can just press ...
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JVM based text editor? [closed]
Are there any JVM based editors out there that have:
Good text-editing capabilities: keyboard shortcuts, commands etc (like VIM or MACS)
Good plugin system using jvm based languages (so that one can ...
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I'm trying to customize my text editor and terminal. Is it possible to use non-monospaced fonts without the horrible results?
I want to experiment with all fonts, including those that aren't mono-spaced. I understand the reason for using monospaced fonts, but frankly they don't seem legitimate to me.
For instance, one ...
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Windows, selective text search and replace within files? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Editor with muti-line search and replace
I'm looking for (ideally free) software, which will perform selective search and replace on multiple text files.
So I want to ...
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How do I get Sublime Text 2 to properly color SQL even if its inside a php string?
I have the following code in a php page:
<?php
$query = "
SELECT data
FROM table
WHERE param = 1
";
Since this sql is wrapped inside quotations in a php document, everything ...
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Searching for a certain word and modifying them within Sublime Text 2 and Vim
I am trying learn the keybindings of vim one by one. I thing that I thought I should get good at early is to find a string of text and replace them with something else.
I had successfully done this ...
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What is a Windows text editor that will make it easy for me to have four text files open onscreen at once?
When brainstorming / planning I like to have four text files open onscreen at once: One for notes/stream of consciousness, one for action items to follow up on, one for a rough outline, etc.... What ...
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What's a good way to write paragraphs in HTML, TeX, etc. while maintaining good indent style?
This comes up anywhere you have to mix code and textual content: HTML, TeX, long comments in code, etc. Most editors will do this:
<div class="bla">
<p>
I want to write a long ...
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What is the shortcut key or menu option to evenly space out variable/array declarations in Notepad++?
I usually use Textmate, which can do this by pressing option+command+right-bracket and it evenly spaces out a selection of declared variables with values. Same goes for arrays as well, it will space ...
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Sublime Text 2 - Project TODO Plugin?
In editors like netbeans there is a window to view all comments that start with #TODO:
Is there a plugin for Sublime Text to view all #TODO: comments throughout the whole project in a single window?
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Are there no standard syntax highlighting in Notepad++?
Whatever language I select there are no syntax highlighting. Just the font color and background color are changing. In other editors there default syntax highlighting and they are pretty good.
Update ...
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Mac text editor that can colour chunks of code?
I'm an avid Textmate user and for the job I'm working on could really do with highlighting large chunks of code. It's a proper soup at the moment and it would be great if I could highlight a chunk and ...
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What are the various ways to manage TextMate bundles?
I find the capabilities and diversity of TextMate bundles to be pretty good, but even in 2011 there doesn't seem to be a great way to sanely manage TextMate bundles, keep things updated, and add and ...
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vim in Console2 on Windows doesn't colour code?
I'm using Console2 on Windows with Cygwin. Using Windows vim (on my PATH), the colour coding doesn't seem to display in Console2?
Using vim from cmd does colour code.
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Different Font styles in Editplus
I would like to have keywords to be appear Bold and variable names,Comments and Strings should be in normal style. is that possible
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Is there anything like “Run” in Sublime Text 2?
Is there a way to launch a page in browsers from Sublime Text 2 ?
Like Run in Notepad++?
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Lightweight text-editor with two code panels
I'm looking for a lightweight freeware text-editor for linux (Ubuntu) with two (or more) code panels, so I can compare pieces of code side-by-side.
For Windows Notepad++ has two panels, and I can ...
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Edit-text-files-over-SSH using a local text editor
I am working in various Linux and UNIX environments.
I'd like to elegantly solve the problem of editing remote configuration files over SSH. Instead of using terminal editors (nano), I'd like to open ...
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Edit one file in two different buffers in emacs
I would like to open the file foo.bar twice (or more) in emacs, so I can edit two different parts of it simultaneously. Is it possible? Probably the better question is, how to do it? Is there a way to ...
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EditPad Pro saves Python files as Batch file output ()
I am using EditPad Pro and my file type is set to Python. EditPad is great and I like it but recently I was trying to update Google App Engine and I got an error during installation saying that my ...
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better way then using vim :r! command line to put text out of the command line history like a directory path into the a file
Is there a better way to do this in vim
I like the command line completion that lets me quickly get a full path out. So I use the :!ls and tab to quickly get the path I am looking for.
:!ls ...
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Software for exporting resume in different formats
I always find myself with the problem of having to translate my resume to different formats for applying for different jobs.
Some people want it in a Word document, RTF, PDF (which is nicer since I ...
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Espresso: disable autocomplete when typing comments
How to disable Espresso’s autocomplete when I’m typing a comment in PHP (starting with //)? Sometimes they appear, sometimes they don’t, I can’t figure out the reasons for that. But when they do, it’s ...
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Notepad++ flip line order?
I want to flip line orders of a document with 500+ lines...
Not only numbers... it's a mix.
Example:
=
If it's not available in Notepad++ then other software whould be good also :)
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Edit a very large textfile [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a text editor for very big files?
I've a 3 gigabytes big log file and I have to edit just a few rows.
With Notepad++, I can't edit the file at all. Does ...
